Wakefield Press is an independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions. Our publications include the Wakefield Handbooks series (the guidebook as imagined through literature), the Imagining Architecture series (architecture as imagined through literature), and the Imagining Science series (science as imagined through literature), as well as forays into classic experimental fiction (literature as imagined through literature). Authors range from literary giants to those underrepresented (or unknown) in English.
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With Their Hearts in Their Boots
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The Employee
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Domesticity
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De Profundis
German Expressionist writings.
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Black–White–Red: Grotesques
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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The Envelope-Silence
A Surrealist library.
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The Employee
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On Homo rodans and Other Writings
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The Subversion of Images
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Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
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The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934–1944
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Imagining Architecture
Fantastical architecture, imaginary urbanism, and hallucinatory dwellings.
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Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
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Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
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Imagining Mystery
Refracted investigations and distortions of the mystery/crime genre.
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Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah
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Murder Most Serene
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Imagining Science
Outsider science, extreme empiricism, aberrant experiments, and imaginary speculations—literary explorations in fictional science.
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Stapelia Mixta
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Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
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The Pig: In Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective
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Pataphysical Essays
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The Library of Cruelty
Tales of love, crime, war, and madness, from the surreal to the sarcastic.
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Domesticity
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The Tower of Love
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With Their Hearts in Their Boots
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The Answer to Lord Chandos
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Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
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Vercoquin and the Plankton
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An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
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The Margins of Dada
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At the Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories
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My Papa and the Maid of Orléans and Other Grotesques
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The Emperor of China, The Mute Canary & The Executioner of Peru
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Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
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The School of the Strange
Belgian and French weird fantasy.
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The Messengers
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Malpertuis
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Circles of Dread
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Verse, from the adverse to the perverse.
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The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards (A Novel against Psicho-Analise)
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Great Liberty
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The Dice Cup
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The Central Laboratory
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The Thief of Talant
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Wakefield Galleries
Rogues galleries, roll calls, personnel files, and eccentric rosters.
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The Illuminated, or The Precursors of Socialism: Tales and Portraits
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Brief Lives of Idiots
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Psychology of the Rich Aunt
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Exemplary Departures
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Wakefield Handbooks
The how-to manual reimagined: guidebooks on a variety of satirical, parodic, and quixotic subjects.
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A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
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Treatise on Modern Stimulants
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The Physiology of the Employee
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A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
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The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
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Treatise on Elegant Living
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